"The tragic love story of Desiree, the beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself body and soul to a handsome urban "prince" whose life she has saved froman accident near her village. Unfortunately, his upper-class family feels that Desiree's skin is too dark and her family too poor for a boy who will be king, and Desiree proves that she is willing to give everything, even her young life, for the purest love she has every known."--Back cover.
"Based on Hans Christian Andersen's fable "The Little Mermaid", the story is set on a lush and beautiful Caribbean island and tells the tragic yet lyrical tale of the impossible love of a rich boy from the city and a poor peasant girl."
""The tragic love story of Desiree, the beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself body and soul to a handsome urban "prince" whose life she has saved froman accident near her village. Unfortunately, his upper-class family feels that Desiree's skin is too dark and her family too poor for a boy who will be king, and Desiree proves that she is willing to give everything, even her young life, for the purest love she has every known."--Back cover."@en
"A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" in which Désirée, a Caribbean peasant girl, falls in love with a prince whose life she has saved, but is rejected by his family, who feel her skin is too dark."
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